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What's that Star?

Ever wonder how to pronounce the names of some of the stars or constellations? Like Bootes? Or Cepheus? Or Dubhe?

Astronomical Society of the Pacific published a guide in 1936 which is available online as a pdf document —

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1936PASP…48..139R/0000140.000.html

Starry Night also has a pronunciation guide which, along with the written pronunciation, has a quicktime audio file so you can actually hear it spoken.

http://www.starrynighteducation.com/resources_pronunciation.html

So, how do YOU pronounce Bootes?

If you’d like to discuss this, please go to our forums:
http://www.csastro.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13220#13220

Submitted by Cindi, on February 6th, 2010 | Category: Astronomy Education | |

USAFA Star Party 2/5/10

Amateur Astronomer Volunteers

CSAS volunteers helped USAFA put on an educational event for the Academy Charter School in Castle Rock, CO. The students (approx 70) and teachers were divided into several groups and participated in educational activities inside USAFA’s Observatory, toured the Observatory, and when the clouds permitted looked through our telescopes to view planets, nebulae, binary stars, and galaxies! You can see by the picture we know how to stay warm when observing in Colorado! We enjoyed sharing our love of the stars with the students, and we appreciate USAFA allowing us to participate in this event!

Submitted by Cindi, on February 5th, 2010 | Category: Outreach Events | |

January Meeting

Just wanted to thank all of you who braved the cold and found the new location for our meeting! It was well attended with many current members and several visitors and new members! Floyd gave a great presention with the Stellarium software and Scott another winner of a powerpoint on how to find an object in the sky… i.e. Setting Circles / Dead Reckoning / Star Hopping.

If you attended you know what I mean, and if you couldn’t make it, we’re working on getting the powerpoints on the website with narration, so stay tuned.

We didn’t get to the “Show-N-Tele” portion of the night due to time constraints and the need to get out of the library by 9pm. On that subject. if you’d like to give some feedback on the meeting place, there is a topic in the forums at:

http://www.csastro.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3303 where we are discussing the meeting space.

We’ll get a post here on the next meeting when we know more than the date…

Submitted by Cindi, on January 27th, 2010 | Category: CSAS News, Monthly Meetings | |

Hypoxic Observer - January 2010

Table of Contents:

  1. Recent Events
    1. Bear Creek Nature Center Telescope Workshop
  2. The Hindle Test
  3. Renewal Reminder
  4. RMSS
  5. Mars Report
  6. Upcoming Events

Download the PDF below:

January 2010 - Hypoxic Observer (266)
Submitted by Cindi, on January 26th, 2010 | Category: Newsletter | |
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